CWC Press releases

CWC welcome Labour Party proposals to restore the Combat Poverty Agency and Equality Infrastructure

The Community workers' Co-operative today welcomed the Labour Party proposals to restore the Combat Poverty Agency and to ensure sufficient resources to enable the Equality Authority and the Irish Human Rights Commission to function effectively.  click here...........

Realignment of departments - Realignment of issues - CWC statement

Pat Carey, TD has been assigned to the Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs. The new Department will incorporate responsibility for social inclusion policy and family policy from the Department of Social and Family Affairs and for equality, disability, integration and human rights from the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform. Mary White has been appointed a Junior Minister with responsibility for Equality, Human Rights and Integration.

 
 CWC statement in relation to FÃS

In a statement issued in response to the recent debate in relation to irregularities in FÁS, the Community Workers' Co-operative stated that the initiatives provided by FÁS are crucial to work in communities. The Chairperson of the CWC, Siobhán O'Donoghue, told RTÉ's The Frontline programme that FÁS initiatives, particularly Community Employment (CE) and Jobs Initiative (JI) enables work to be done in communities in a cost effective, accessible, efficient way, that could not otherwise be done - such as homework clubs, childcare programmes, maintenance, etc.

Another key benefit of FÁS schemes is that they enable opportunities to people from disadvantaged areas or groups, to enter the workplace and undergo training and education that brings them closer to the job market and to being job ready. CE and JI provide opportunities that they would not get otherwise.

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The CWC issued a statement in relation to the irregularities in FÁS stating that initiatives provided by FÁS are crucial to work in communities.